{"id":3422,"date":"2026-11-08T22:17:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T20:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inequality.haifa.ac.il\/?p=3422"},"modified":"2026-11-10T16:07:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T14:07:48","slug":"the-sociology-of-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inequality.haifa.ac.il\/en\/2026\/11\/08\/the-sociology-of-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sociology of Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"ineq-meta wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Type:<\/strong> Course \u00b7 <strong>Lecturer:<\/strong> Dr. Asa Maron \u00b7 <strong>Framework:<\/strong> Department of Sociology, BA \u00b7 <strong>Date:<\/strong> Fall semester 2025\u201326<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How do social groups struggle for power, and how does that struggle shape society? This question lies at the heart of the course. The 28 students did not stay in the classroom: with the Center&#8217;s support, they went out to meet civil society organizations in Haifa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What we did<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>A workshop at Isha L&#8217;Isha:<\/strong> on women without civil status living in Haifa (Palestinian, Ukrainian and Russian women), led by Asma Mar&#8217;i, the project coordinator. Students saw how an organization works at the same time to change the public agenda and to help women directly, through advocacy and mediation with the authorities.<\/li><li><strong>A workshop at the Mossawa Center:<\/strong> dialogue circles and activities on the multidimensional inequality between Arab and Jewish citizens.<\/li><li><strong>A guest lecture:<\/strong> Yonatan Maklis, director of the Haifa branch of the Social Justice Centers, an organization founded after the 2011 social protests.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The course deals directly with the politics of inequality: who receives resources, opportunities and power, and which institutions justify that distribution. Understanding citizenship as &#8220;the right to have rights&#8221; reveals how deep the inequality is for those without civil status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>From the field:<\/strong> Students from the feminist studies cluster said the Isha L&#8217;Isha workshop showed them what feminist activism looks like in practice.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28 sociology students left the classroom for workshops at Isha L&#8217;Isha and the Mossawa Center, and saw up close struggles over citizenship, equality and the distribution of resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-supported-courses","category-supported-by-the-center","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inequality.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inequality.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inequality.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inequality.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inequality.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inequality.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3452,"href":"https:\/\/inequality.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422\/revisions\/3452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inequality.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inequality.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inequality.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inequality.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}